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...have turned up dead - including Heorhiy Gongadze, whose headless corpse was found by the side of a road in the Tarashchanskiy forest near Kiev in November 2000, two months after he disappeared. Gongadze had been writing articles critical of Kuchma and his top officials. That same November, Major Mykola Melnychenko, a former Kuchma bodyguard now in the U.S., released a secretly taped recording of a conversation in which Kuchma purportedly tells top aides that Gongadze should be "given" to Chechen guerrillas or otherwise disposed of. The government has repeatedly denied any role in his death. Unlike Gongadze, Mikhailo Kolomiets...
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